XDarwin: I want you to hurt like Edie hurt!Murdoch: She never did. They wasn't time.Darwin: Be afraid!Murdoch: Me hurting won't make your hurting stop, boy.Darwin: You -- shut up. You just shut --Lena: Hey!Murdoch: Oh, look. Now I'm afraid.

If all goes well, you are all reading this on Friday and I am in Montreal. If not, um. I'll fix it when I get back?
In the meantime, have some reading material! SFNovelists, a group of professional science fiction and fantasy authors, put together this nifty sampler of first chapters from their books. I know what I'm reading on the plane....

Watching over scientists on a planetary survey is a boring job if you haven't, say, hacked your governor module -- not to go on a murderbot spree; to watch soap operas. But then the survey gets interesting....